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James Pearce

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#NC3Rs funded training fellow in the Wakefield lab at Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter. Developing genetic tools for Galleria mellonella 🐛. Co-director of Galleria mellonella Research Centre @gmrc.bsky.social /@gmrcUK - https://gmrcuk.org

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James Pearce @jamescpearce.bsky.social · 8d

Caught the last of the light on the way home and a few winter chanterelles for tea!

James Pearce @jamescpearce.bsky.social · 8d

Shaggy inkcap time!

James Pearce @jamescpearce.bsky.social · 9d

Picked up this lovely book from a charity shop for £2 and quite charmingly it’s full of little clippings from over a quarter of a century ago, yet still relevant.

James Pearce @jamescpearce.bsky.social · 25d

This weekend‘s activity now sorted courtesy of Emorsgate - trying to bolster the species in my wild patch for next year.

James Pearce @jamescpearce.bsky.social · Sep 27

More chunky chaps, this time rose chafer grubs - back underground now to see them next year

James Pearce @jamescpearce.bsky.social · Sep 25

Today’s rearing had some chunky chappies, but I‘m looking forward to the day when the Moby Dick of Galleria reported in this study turns up at 740mg (current PB is ~650mg) pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

#fatmothweek

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Sebastian Bruchmann @doktorbasti.bsky.social · Sep 16

Had a brilliant time in Liverpool at Edge Hill University for the Galleria mellonella Workshop 🐛
Grateful to be invited as a speaker, the great chats and new connections. Amazing to see the wide range of applications, hope our time lapse imaging work can add to the field!

Me (Sebastian Bruchmann) giving a presentation titled "Towards a scalable platform for high-throughput virulence assays"

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James Pearce @jamescpearce.bsky.social · Sep 15

hopefully galleria users can celebrate the end of hourly galleria poking sessions

James Pearce @jamescpearce.bsky.social · Sep 15

Our final talk is from @doktorbasti.bsky.social at @cam.ac.uk on the scalable imaging platform is developing to automate health and mortality scoring during microbial virulence assays #galleriamellonellaworkshop2025

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James Pearce @jamescpearce.bsky.social · Sep 15

Next a presentation from Toby Jenkins and Simon Booth from @uniofbath.bsky.social on their work using lasers to improve the Galleria burn wound infection model originally developed by @evgeniamaslova.bsky.social #galleriamellonellaworkshop2025

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James Pearce @jamescpearce.bsky.social · Sep 15

@cjcoates.bsky.social from @universityofgalway.bsky.social and @swanseauni.bsky.social gives us an overview on Galleria as an aspirant toxicology model for shellfish poisoning syndrome #galleriamellonellaworkshop2025

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James Pearce @jamescpearce.bsky.social · Sep 15

After the first break we have Prof Vitaliy Khutoryanskiy from PEVITAC @uniofreading.bsky.social on their advances in toxicological and antimicrobial testing using Galleria #galleriamellonellaworkshop2025

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James Pearce @jamescpearce.bsky.social · Sep 15

Next up is @jenniesc.bsky.social of @exeter.ac.uk / @gmrc.bsky.social giving an overview of the Galleria mellonella Research Centre activities! #galleriamellonellaworkshop2025

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James Pearce @jamescpearce.bsky.social · Sep 15

The 2025 Galleria mellonella Workshop is off to a start at Edge Hill University, with an opening talk on the Galleria Envenoming Model from @rachelhclare.bsky.social #galleriamellonellaworkshop2025

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Galleria mellonella Research Centre @gmrc.bsky.social · Aug 11

🐛 Research-grade Galleria mellonella — hand-picked for researchers, BY researchers!

Planning experiments for Sept/Oct? Get in touch now!

✅ In-house reared, no antimicrobial additives
✅ Hand-selected for quality
✅ +10% extra to cover in-transit loss
✅ Flexible shipping options

📩 [email protected]

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Seirian Sumner @waspwoman.bsky.social · Aug 3

Wasps (and me!) in @thesundaytimes.bsky.social today. Thanks @ben-spencer.bsky.social for championing wasps!

Get involved with #WaspPicnicSurvey and #BigWaspSurvey!
#SummerOfWaspLove
Links below!
@uclcber.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social
@adamhartscience.bsky.social

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James Pearce @jamescpearce.bsky.social · Jul 16

Incredible what one application of Just For Men can do.

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James Pearce @jamescpearce.bsky.social · Jul 14

Ps. for those who might have on the fence and considering coming - the scenery, wildlife and snorkelling on your doorstep are incredible

James Pearce @jamescpearce.bsky.social · Jul 14

Back from Kolymbari, and had such an amazing time with an incredible community of lepidopterists #lepgencrete. Great to get the opportunity to talk about what we're up to with @gmrc.bsky.social and spread the word about the #galleriamellonella infection model. Can't wait for #lepgen13 in 2028!

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · Jul 7

You want to collect insects (and maybe other arthropods) for reference genome sequencing, but don't want to spend a fortune on dry ice shipping!

All you gotta do is SQUISH. THAT. BUG!

More details in our recent preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

a silly #SciArt redraw of the squish that cat meme, but it is a grey stickfigure squishing a mosquito (that looks like a little cat) with the text SQUISH THAT BUG!

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Jamie Walters @bioboatr.bsky.social · Jul 8

Galleria mellonella workshop in September, Edge Hill University
nc3rs.org.uk/events/galle...

Galleria mellonella workshop 2025

The fourth annual Galleria mellonella workshop will include networking and discussion of methods, models and husbandry techniques.

nc3rs.org.uk

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NC3Rs @nc3rs.bsky.social · Jul 7

Wax moth larvae are growing in use as a partial replacement for rodents, from infection and immunity research to toxicology. The fourth annual Galleria mellonella workshop is organised by Dr Rachel Clare in collaboration with @gmrc.bsky.social

🗓️15 September
👉Register: nc3rs.org.uk/events/galle...

A wax moth larvae (Galleria mellonella) in a plastic petri dish.

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Galleria mellonella Research Centre @gmrc.bsky.social · Jul 7

🌟Excited to announce our first speaker for GMW2025

🎤Prof. Khutoryanskiy (www.pevitac.co.uk) will join us with a talk on:

“Galleria mellonella in Toxicology & Antimicrobial Evaluation: A PEVITAC Perspective on Scientific & Commercial Impact”

🐛Info: www.gmrcuk.org/galleria-mellonella-workshop-2025

GALLERIA MELLONELLA WORKSHOP 2025

We are very pleased to announce that the annual Galleria Mellonella Workshop is back for 2025! This year, the workshop will run for the first time in the north of England - at Edge Hill...

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James Pearce @jamescpearce.bsky.social · Jul 6

Galleria bucket hat is a conference essential

James Pearce @jamescpearce.bsky.social · Jul 6

The lep meeting is only every three years and i was gutted to miss the 2022 one, so very happy to be here! Enjoy the 2026 trip!